What are the target schools for consulting?+
No firm publishes a list. Going by the firms' own campus pages, 32 US colleges have a page at McKinsey, BCG and Bain: Brigham Young University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Emory University, Georgetown University, Georgia Tech, Harvard University, Indiana University, MIT, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Princeton University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of North Carolina, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, University of Virginia, University of Washington, Vanderbilt University, Washington University in St. Louis and Yale University.
What are the MBB target schools for MBAs?+
No firm publishes a list. Going by the firms' own campus pages, 20 US MBA programs have a page at all three firms: Berkeley Haas, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Emory Goizueta, Harvard Business School, Michigan Ross, Minnesota Carlson, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB, UT Austin McCombs, UVA Darden, Washington Foster, Wharton and Yale SOM.
Do McKinsey, BCG and Bain publish a list of target schools?+
No. They publish campus recruiting pages for the schools they recruit at, through a school search on each careers site. McKinsey says some of the schools it recruits from have a dedicated page.
Does a campus page mean the firm hires a lot of students from that school?+
Not on its own. A page shows the firm has a recruiting team and events for the school. The firms don't publish how many they hire from each one.
Can you get into McKinsey, BCG or Bain from a non-target school?+
Yes. Every firm takes applications online, McKinsey says its standards for an interview and an offer are the same globally, and BCG says it hires from a range of academic backgrounds. BCG Launch is open to undergrads at any US or Canadian school.
What is a semi-target school for consulting?+
An informal term for a school where some firms recruit on campus but not all. No firm defines it. The table above shows which of the three firms has a page for each school.
Do consulting firms recruit at HBCUs?+
McKinsey and BCG each have one campus page for Historically Black Colleges and Universities as a group. Bain has its own pages for Howard, Morehouse, Spelman, Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern.
Why isn't my school on this page?+
This page lists US schools that have their own page at McKinsey, BCG or Bain as of October 27, 2026. A school without one may still host firm events, and every firm has general pages and online applications for students anywhere.